sea-wingn.
1. poetic. nonce-use. Means of ‘flight’ by sea.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. x. 19 The Noble ruine of her Magicke, Anthony, Claps on his Sea-wing, and (like a doting Mallard) Leauing the Fight in heighth, flyes after her.
2. A wing-shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > class Pteropoda > member of
sea-wing1681
pteropod1833
wing-shell1835
butterfly snail1876
pteropodan1890
sea butterfly1909
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vi. ii. 141 The Sea-Wing. Pinna. Each Valve is very like in shape to the Wing of a large Fowl, from whence I name it.
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 459 The sea-wing.
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